This is an analysis of the poem America Politica Historia, In Spontaneity that begins with:

O this political air so heavy with the bells
and motors of a slow night, and no place to rest ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcacadXefggfhijklbleabbfkamljnfelkobmkapekqqcXniloalbrhsssdhkfrfjcfffoaXojiefcsPrclbbploccobXfjomlcPbkblXkmb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 109,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001001110001 110001111101 110110101001 010010001010 01110100100 1101001011 10100111 111110010010 10000101001010110 110101110101 1000111010 1110010 1001110001 1100100100110 001010001 01011010 100100101011 1010100101011 1110101011 10100100100101 011010110 0111010101 0101010001 0111001110111 101101010010 101001010001011 010100100100010101 010111111 110101110101 111101001010 10110101 10101111110100 1101001000110 110101111 1100100 1110101101 01111010100101 1011010101 010010010101011 1100010110 1110100111101 0110111010 1000101 1100110110 110011010 1101000101001 1000100100101 11110101 1111111011 0101 1001010101 11101010101010 11110010011011 00100100101 10101101000100111 1010001000100 111101 1111010 1110010 1110100010001010010 01111111000100 10101110100100111101 01110101110100 1011011010001001 1111110100 01010111111100 011101001110111 01000110010100 0110110110110 011010010 0111111001001001110 101000010110 11111010 1101100101 10100101110 1110010111 00101010010100110010 10100101101001 101001011000111010 101101011101010 1101 011110000101101 10111001 0101011 111011110 100101101010 10101111 101101 1010110 110110101 01010011010 11010100110 111 110001101010 10101111101010 1101001101001010 11101111 0110110111 101110111 11110010100110 1101 110010010011100 0100101010001 111100 100110110011 1011110 110010001010100 101101101 01101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4772
  • Average number of words per stanza: 859
  • Amount of lines: 109
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, be, in, of, his, i, people, to, american, he, man are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, in, the, i, he are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines orange, looking are repeated).

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